Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney has been remembered as one of Ireland’s finest literary minds following his death after a short illness. The farmer’s son died in hospital in Dublin aged 74.

Brian Friel’s Translations was first produced in Derry in 1980 with a cast that included Stephen Rea, Liam Neeson and Mick Lally.

The brother-in-law of a man killed on Bloody Sunday today recalled how a soldier shot at him as he carried the dying youth to safety.

A witness wept today as he described cries and groans coming from an Army Saracen vehicle where the body of a Bloody Sunday victim had been thrown by "laughing" paratroopers.

One of the youths shot dead on Bloody Sunday pleaded with people to back off from a confrontation with troops earlier that day, the inquiry into the killings heard today.